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University in Evanston, Illinois, US
Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851, it is the oldest chartered university in Illinois. Northwestern was initially affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church but later became non-sectarian. Northwestern became a founding member of the Big Ten Conference in 1896 and joined the Association of American Universities in 1917.
More on Wikipedia ↗Public university in Pennsylvania, US
The Pennsylvania State University is a public state-related land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855 as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, Penn State was named the state's first land-grant university eight years later. Its primary campus, known as Penn State University Park, is located in State College and College Township in Centre County.
More on Wikipedia ↗Northwestern University opened a new chapter in its football history Friday night with the debut of the new Ryan Field, a stadium that replaces the venue that traces its roots back 100 years.
Northwestern University debuted its new $875 million football stadium on Friday night, as Ryan Field hosted its first game exactly 100 years after the original Dyche Stadium opened on the same site in Evanston.
As the Wildcats prepared to run onto the field seconds before kickoff, the guitar licks bounced off the new concrete, old limestone and soccer-style canopy of the stadium. Players sprinted across the field and stopped in front of their new student section, the Wildcat Wall. Two thousand students…